Land Renewed: Reworking the Countryside
Peter Hetherington
Abstract
Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues — yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, the book sets out the innovative measures needed for nature's recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food productio ... More
Feeding Britain while preparing for the ravages of climate change are two key issues — yet there's no strategy for managing and enhancing that most precious resource: our land. This book explores how the pressures of leaving the EU, recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, and addressing global heating present unparalleled opportunities to re-work the countryside for the benefit of all. Incorporating personal, inspiring stories of people and places, the book sets out the innovative measures needed for nature's recovery while protecting our most valuable farmland, encouraging local food production and repeopling remote areas. In the first book to tackle these issues holistically, the author argues that we need to reshape the countryside with an adventurous new agenda at the heart of government.
Keywords:
global heating,
British farmland,
local food production,
climate change,
COVID-19 pandemic
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781529217414 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529217414.001.0001 |